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WHO IS PAYING THE PROGRESSIVE PROTESTERS?

As the news is filled with angry mobs, screaming protests, and threatening caravans, one wonders who is organizing these affairs and paying for the most vocal of the protesters…

Hire Demonstrators

Are you looking to create a buzz anywhere in the United States? At Crowds on Demand, we provide our clients with protests, rallies, flash-mobs, paparazzi events and other inventive PR stunts. These services are available across the country in every major U.S city, every major U.S metro area and even most smaller cities as well. We provide everything including the people, the materials and even the ideas. You can come to us with a specific plan of action and we can make it happen. OR, you can approach us with a general idea and we can help you plan the strategy then execute it.

We’ve made campaigns involving hundreds of people come to action in just days. We have a proven record of delivering major wins on even the toughest campaigns and delivering phenomenal experiences with even the most logistically challenging events.

Our services are now available throughout the United States, so whether you’re looking at doing a single event or a multi-city campaign, we have the resources available to achieve your goals. Our headquarters are located in Beverly Hills, CA with an event operations center located in the suburbs of Dallas, TX. Satellite offices are located all over the country to allow us to execute operations with as little as 24-48 hours notice in every city in the United States and with 72-96 hours notice in any rural or exurban location in the United States.

Protests, Rallies, and Advocacy

Whether your organization is lobbying to gain approval of a project, move forward a legislative initiative, bring additional pressure within complex litigation or trying to see swift and effective action in another way, we can set-up protests, coordinate phone-banking initiatives and create non-profit organizations to advance your agenda. <Source>

Sometimes the crowd comes from the best friends of the community organizers, the unions and special interest organizations of the grievance industry…

It is not unusual to see union peer pressure and thuggery turning out protesters, nor is unusual to find non-local members at a labor protest. Especially from the communist-infused SEIU (Service Employees International Union) founded by Stephen Wade Rathke who also founded the fraud known as ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). I find it amazing that the great majority of community organizers, unions, and others have communist roots and promote the agenda of progressive socialist democrats almost exclusively.

SEIU Protesters Admit to Being Paid $11 an Hour to Protest Romney Event

SEIU protesters outside a Mitt Romney campaign event in Ohio on Wednesday admitted on camera that they were paid $11 an hour to picket.

The video, posted to YouTube on Wednesday, showed protesters carrying a variety of signs including “SEIU for Obama 2012.” Some wore T-shirts in the labor union’s signature purple.

“We rode down here today,” one man with an “SEIU for Obama” sign said on camera. “They’re paying $11 an hour.”

One woman said the SEIU picked people up from around the community to come protest and that a lot of activists just “go door to door.” She said there were paid canvassers picketing as well as community activists.

It’s not the first time SEIU protesters have discussed being paid to picket: Back in March, a group of female protesters with SEIU gear in Washington, D.C. were overheard on camera talking about the money they had received.

Camarillo City Council meetings aren’t what most people would consider compelling television. Like almost any council meeting in almost any city, it’s usually pretty boring programing. And funny? Certainly not.

When companies and causes drum up fake grass-roots support, it’s called “astroturfing,” and while it sounds like it’s straight out of a D.C. playbook, it happened right here in Camarillo when the council discussed a home proposed to be built in Las Posas Estates.

The council voted unanimously in favor of the home despite opposition from speakers like Prince Jordan Tyson, an actor from Beverly Hills who claimed to live part time in the Camarillo area when he spoke to the council.

But after the vote, Tyson returned to address the council and recanted his earlier statement, admitting he was paid $100 by Los Angeles-based company Crowds on Demand to oppose the project. <Source>

Bottom line…

Ask the protester what they are protesting, and they do not know. Ask the protester who to see about getting paid to protest, and they will often point to some “crowd wrangler” at the edge of the protest (sometimes with beefy bodyguards to protect the “walking around” or “drinking” money that will be dispensed.

The TEA PARTY was an organic event, a movement that was polite, respectful, and effective. Often leaving venues cleaner than when they arrived to illustrate their sincerity in peacefully protesting. The group was essentially leaderless so no single individual could be attacked and that anyone who was of like mind could participate. Nobody asked for your political outlook or checked your identity to ensure you “fit in” with the group. Of course, it all faded away when certain ex-politicians tried to formalize the group structure and install themselves as the very visible head of this potent force. A great idea done-in by corrupt political hacks seeking relevance, recognition, and a modicum of potent political power.

Now with Photoshop, complex audio, and video editing, you cannot even believe that which you hear and see without thinking “follow the money.”

Remember, all of those fancy-named organizations, coalitions, etc. are often artificial fronts for lobbyists and activist organizations attempting to convince you that their motives are pure and your contributions will be used for something other than paying off politicians and living the high life.

We are so screwed.

-- steve

Reference Links…

For those wanting to know more about so-called astroturfing, the creation, and manipulation of artificial grassroots organizations, you may wish to read “Grassroots for Hire: Public Affairs Consultants in American Democracy” authored by UCLA sociology professor Edward Walker.

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius

“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims... but accomplices” -- George Orwell

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As the news is filled with angry mobs, screaming protests, and threatening caravans, one wonders who is organizing these affairs and paying for the most vocal of the protesters…

Hire Demonstrators

Are you looking to create a buzz anywhere in the United States? At Crowds on Demand, we provide our clients with protests, rallies, flash-mobs, paparazzi events and other inventive PR stunts. These services are available across the country in every major U.S city, every major U.S metro area and even most smaller cities as well. We provide everything including the people, the materials and even the ideas. You can come to us with a specific plan of action and we can make it happen. OR, you can approach us with a general idea and we can help you plan the strategy then execute it.

We’ve made campaigns involving hundreds of people come to action in just days. We have a proven record of delivering major wins on even the toughest campaigns and delivering phenomenal experiences with even the most logistically challenging events.

Our services are now available throughout the United States, so whether you’re looking at doing a single event or a multi-city campaign, we have the resources available to achieve your goals. Our headquarters are located in Beverly Hills, CA with an event operations center located in the suburbs of Dallas, TX. Satellite offices are located all over the country to allow us to execute operations with as little as 24-48 hours notice in every city in the United States and with 72-96 hours notice in any rural or exurban location in the United States.

Protests, Rallies, and Advocacy

Whether your organization is lobbying to gain approval of a project, move forward a legislative initiative, bring additional pressure within complex litigation or trying to see swift and effective action in another way, we can set-up protests, coordinate phone-banking initiatives and create non-profit organizations to advance your agenda. <Source>

Sometimes the crowd comes from the best friends of the community organizers, the unions and special interest organizations of the grievance industry…

It is not unusual to see union peer pressure and thuggery turning out protesters, nor is unusual to find non-local members at a labor protest. Especially from the communist-infused SEIU (Service Employees International Union) founded by Stephen Wade Rathke who also founded the fraud known as ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). I find it amazing that the great majority of community organizers, unions, and others have communist roots and promote the agenda of progressive socialist democrats almost exclusively.

SEIU Protesters Admit to Being Paid $11 an Hour to Protest Romney Event

SEIU protesters outside a Mitt Romney campaign event in Ohio on Wednesday admitted on camera that they were paid $11 an hour to picket.

The video, posted to YouTube on Wednesday, showed protesters carrying a variety of signs including “SEIU for Obama 2012.” Some wore T-shirts in the labor union’s signature purple.

“We rode down here today,” one man with an “SEIU for Obama” sign said on camera. “They’re paying $11 an hour.”

One woman said the SEIU picked people up from around the community to come protest and that a lot of activists just “go door to door.” She said there were paid canvassers picketing as well as community activists.

It’s not the first time SEIU protesters have discussed being paid to picket: Back in March, a group of female protesters with SEIU gear in Washington, D.C. were overheard on camera talking about the money they had received.

Camarillo City Council meetings aren’t what most people would consider compelling television. Like almost any council meeting in almost any city, it’s usually pretty boring programing. And funny? Certainly not.

When companies and causes drum up fake grass-roots support, it’s called “astroturfing,” and while it sounds like it’s straight out of a D.C. playbook, it happened right here in Camarillo when the council discussed a home proposed to be built in Las Posas Estates.

The council voted unanimously in favor of the home despite opposition from speakers like Prince Jordan Tyson, an actor from Beverly Hills who claimed to live part time in the Camarillo area when he spoke to the council.

But after the vote, Tyson returned to address the council and recanted his earlier statement, admitting he was paid $100 by Los Angeles-based company Crowds on Demand to oppose the project. <Source>

Bottom line…

Ask the protester what they are protesting, and they do not know. Ask the protester who to see about getting paid to protest, and they will often point to some “crowd wrangler” at the edge of the protest (sometimes with beefy bodyguards to protect the “walking around” or “drinking” money that will be dispensed.

The TEA PARTY was an organic event, a movement that was polite, respectful, and effective. Often leaving venues cleaner than when they arrived to illustrate their sincerity in peacefully protesting. The group was essentially leaderless so no single individual could be attacked and that anyone who was of like mind could participate. Nobody asked for your political outlook or checked your identity to ensure you “fit in” with the group. Of course, it all faded away when certain ex-politicians tried to formalize the group structure and install themselves as the very visible head of this potent force. A great idea done-in by corrupt political hacks seeking relevance, recognition, and a modicum of potent political power.

Now with Photoshop, complex audio, and video editing, you cannot even believe that which you hear and see without thinking “follow the money.”

Remember, all of those fancy-named organizations, coalitions, etc. are often artificial fronts for lobbyists and activist organizations attempting to convince you that their motives are pure and your contributions will be used for something other than paying off politicians and living the high life.

We are so screwed.

-- steve

Reference Links…

For those wanting to know more about so-called astroturfing, the creation, and manipulation of artificial grassroots organizations, you may wish to read “Grassroots for Hire: Public Affairs Consultants in American Democracy” authored by UCLA sociology professor Edward Walker.